A strike by most City of Whitehorse workers could leave some parents looking for child care after school and on any professional development days their child’s school may have.

Also on the list of city services that would not be offered: garbage and compost pickup.

City spokesman Myles Dolphin confirmed this morning an agreement outlining what services would remain in place in the event of a strike by most city workers has been reached.

That occurred following meetings the workers’ union and the city had this week with the Canadian Industrial Relations Board in Vancouver.

With that agreement now reached, the union could provide 72 hours’ notice for any planned job action. Dolphin said the city has not received any such notice.

The services agreement outlines that offerings during a strike would not include programming available through the city’s recreation and facility services.

There would be no programs offered through the Canada Games Centre – registered or drop-in – in the event of a strike, Dolphin said.

The city currently offers a 3 O’Clock Craze after-school child care program, as well as Pro D day camps during professional development days for schools with the next such day camp scheduled for April 27.

While there’s also a number of day camps held throughout the summer holidays, Dolphin said it’s not clear whether those would be cancelled, as the staff for those are not part of the Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU).

On the summer camps, the agreement states: “This program may be cancelled, however as summer/day camp leaders are non union employees, there may not be a need to cancel this program.

“Operationally a decision should be made regarding the demands of the program relative to the demands on management staff to maintain essential services.”

Meanwhile, residents would be directed to take their waste to the landfill themselves if a strike ensued.

Dolphin noted that with the landfill operations contracted out, that facility would remain open in the event of a labour disruption.

The Maintenance of Activities Agreement – or, as it’s more commonly called, an essential services agreement – was reached during meetings with a mediator between the city and the union in Vancouver this week.

The agreement outlines exactly what services would be provided, how staff would be called in and so on if job action is taken by the union.

“Some scheduled work still needs to be carried out,” Dolphin said, noting that basically, any work of an emergency nature would continue.

That could include things like road-clearing for emergency vehicles, equipment repair, and dealing with reports of dangerous animals that are roaming in the city.

City officials remain hopeful the parties can return to the table as soon as possible.

The city had asked for mediation dates of April 16 and 17 to work on agreements with the unions representing most city workers and the city’s transit union (which is already staging a work-to-rule campaign). Those dates, however, are not available for the mediator.

“We’re requesting dates at (the mediator’s) earliest convenience,” Dolphin said.

YEU president Steve Geick could not be reached this morning for comment on the agreement.

The latest round of union negotiations saw three days of mediation over new collective agreements in the middle of March.

No deal was reached for either the city’s transit workers nor Local Y023 representing other city workers aside from firefighters. Transit staffers have been staging work-to-rule action since March 19.